North Belfast boxing sensation Carl Frampton has revealed he turned down a chance to appear on Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother.

The world boxing champ said he was offered a big money deal to go into the house alongside the likes of Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton, Hollywood actor Daniel Baldwin and X-Factor rejects Stevi Ritchie and Chloe Jasmine.

But despite the lure of an impressive cash pay out and pressure from his wife to take part, the IBF super-bantamweight champion decided to give it a miss.

Explaining his decision in his Sunday Life column, he said: “I got an offer to be in the latest Celebrity Big Brother and my wife Christine wanted me to give it a go.

“But I decided it wasn’t for me, even though the money would have been pretty good.

“It can get pretty heated in there and plenty of people end up saying things they don’t mean and ruin their reputations.

“I would consider I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in the jungle.

“I’d be up for all the eating maggots and the various bits and pieces of crocodiles but the one reality programme Christine has told me I can’t do is Strictly Come Dancing because so many go on and have affairs.”

Perhaps another reason why the pride of Tigers Bay decided to give the Channel 5 programme a miss was so he wouldn’t miss his daughter’s first day at primary school on Tuesday.

It would appear that he has managed to dodge controversy as the programme has already booted off one of its contestants after pictures emerged of her dressed in Nazi clothing and posing in front of an image of Auschwitz.

Tila Tequila, who was kicked out of the CBB house after less than 24 hours, posted the image of herself standing in front of Auschwitz back in December 2013, holding a gun and wearing a Nazi armband and hat.

She also posted a series of anti-semitic rants and claimed to be Adolf Hitler reincarnated, claiming that the man behind the Second World War was a “brilliant artist” who was “ahead of his time”.

She has since been forced to apologise and asked to be allowed back on to the programme but Channel 5 refused.

Meanwhile, another fame hungry housemate, Teen Mom star and sex tape queen Farrah Abraham has also been embroiled in some ugly spats with a number of her fellow contestants.